I went back to my time making films as a way of understanding what I was trying to achieve. Image and spoken text in film need not relate at all. In Pulp Fiction, the two erstwhile hit men discuss hamburgers on their way to a job. While we may pay attention to what they are wearing, the car interior and the passing landscape are irrelevant. The disconnect between what they do for a living and the language being used strikes me as hyper-normal. We and they are on different journeys. Words and meaning can be equally separate in your average Facebook or Twitter comment where irony and alternate readings are common.

One of my solutions as to how deal with the concept of time was to take a literal beginning in using film frames. There are 24/25 frames a second with most cameras but when stretched out in a line, the film frames barely record any change in the image. As a storyboard though, a minute’s action can be reduced to just one drawing complete with dialogue running at three spoken words per second. Recreating a limited number of frames as individual canvases placed side by side and hardly changing approached the idea of time in that time was necessarily slowed down through representation and having the audience walk the length of the work reading words as they went, stretched the experience.